Rus

Another of my myriad characters (they seem to just appear out of random crevices in the floor and walls, these days...), a gryphon named Rus. Yes, that's right--a gryphon. Unfortunately, she just happens to have had a run-in with a somewhat haphazard young human mage named Sasha, who, in a bid to save her life from hunters, accidentally got her soul magically stuck to his. Consequently, whenever he's in his natural state, she gets stuck that way, too--human, and none too happy about the situation.This was just a portrait piece, a bit more involved and time consuming than my usual lineart, and somewhat sappily symbolic, as well (gryphon feather, wink wink, raptor eye, nudge nudge...).